The Livy Method Podcast - Livy Method Day 10 - Spring 2025

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Gina Livy's Facebook Lives from The Livy Method Spring 2025 Support Group hosted on Facebook. This is a recording of the Day 10, 9 AM live. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2025Weight loss isn’t just about what you eat—it’s about how your body feels. In this episode, Gina is breaking down what actually matters when it comes to seeing movement on the scale. From the real role of hormones like insulin to the truth about supplements (spoiler: they support, not solve), she's laying it all out. Gina talks about how The Livy Method App sets you up for success, why recovery from stress matters more than stress itself, and how one piece of cake won’t derail your journey. If you’ve ever felt stuck, emotional, or frustrated with the scale, this episode is for you. It's time to stop obsessing over perfection and start tuning into The Plan—and yourself.To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livi and welcome to the Livi Method Podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams from my 91 Day Weight Loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews, and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the Morning Live? Want to relisten to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place.

This podcast is hosted on Acast, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Music. Acast powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. Ever heard a story so wild, you just had to know if it was true? best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. story. Our guests share two stories, one from their own life and one they shall we say borrowed. Can you guess which one really happened to them? Subscribe to Steal My Story on the Sonar Network or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, hello, it is day 10 of the program and it is week one.

How is the week going for you? It is also a Wednesday, happy Wednesday. So midway through our first week, now we go right to the very last day. That's really important of the week. So when you are working each two weeks, we go right to the very last day. That's really important of the week. So when you are working each two weeks, we go right to the very last day on Sundays. We roll out the guidelines for the following week. So really working that basic food plan this week, trying to be as consistent as possible with following it. So we have a lot of new people who've just started the program. It is still so early that you can jump in where we are at,

but you do want to make sure that you've taken time to review some of the information that we posted in prep week. So the program should be really easy to follow. It's just about following the guidelines, but there's a lot of extra information that we post and a lot of conversations that we have in and around that. If you haven't had an opportunity yet, there are a couple guest segments. The first one we had on prep week, which was with Dr. Deana Kara Schaefer. You met her yesterday. She's a

learning strategist, Dr. Beverly David. She's a clinical psychologist. She's going to be joining us tomorrow. Also Dr. Alinka, who is like the hormone queen. She just hormones are her jam. And we're going to be talking a lot about hormones. In fact, you might have seen that post today, but let's talk weight loss. And weight loss is so much more than calories in versus calories out and has a lot to do with our hormones, which are really our chemical messengers that tell our body what to do and signal. And there are hunger hormones, your leptin and your ghrelin, that tell you when you're hungry and when you're satisfied.

There is your cortisol levels, there's your insulin that tells your body where to store your glycogen. And so weight loss is a lot about hormones. And Dr. Alinka is just incredible at breaking it down in a way that makes a lot of sense. And then Dr. Paul Herkle, you'll join us as well. You'll have an opportunity to listen to him more next week as he joins us and talks about supplements. Do you need supplements? Again, it's not a supplement program. We are absolutely not a supplement program. We will not make you buy supplements. You do not have to take supplements and they're probably not the supplements that you think. They

are things like omega-3, just good healthy fats. If you're not eating a lot of fish, it's hard to get enough omega-3 in your diets. Good for your brain, cellular function, vitamin D. Vitamin D is an important one even though the sun is starting to shine and the days are getting longer, some people might not absorb vitamin D like me. So I have to take a supplement and vitamin D does a lot of things. One of the things it does is kind of tricks the body into thinking that it doesn't need that extra fat. In the wintertime, when your vitamin D levels drop, that signals fat gain.

So this is one of the reasons why vitamin D, it's important to keep your levels up. We're also gonna talk about B complex, B6, all your B vitamins that are really important, especially when it comes to your energy and whatnot. We're also gonna talk about trace minerals, collagen, but really super basic things. Supplements that if you are deficient in them

can hinder your body's ability to function, like magnesium, which is probably the biggest one. So you're gonna have an opportunity to meet him as well. Good morning, good morning, good morning. I'm a newbie, looking, loving it, got kicked out of last night and couldn't access the live email tech support, but no answer.

So we have real people working. Sometimes people will message us like one o'clock in the morning and then six o'clock in the morning again and be like, no one got back to me. I'm like, they're real people. They were sleeping. Our tech support team and customer support team is usually pretty quick at getting back to you, but they do work within regular hours. We like to provide work-life balance environment in our company.

And we don't have anyone working overnight or anything like that. It's not bots, so it's actually real people. But they will get back to you and they will hand hold you through the whole thing. I think you must be talking about your app because obviously you're in the Facebook support group today. Sometimes people get kicked out of Facebook randomly or people will leave, like they'll click some little button and it'll take them out and then just get back in. Always make sure though with your app that you're updating it because we're always making changes to our app because we are not finished with it. We're always making improvements and changes to your app too. So if you ask our people here,

our program specialists, like we're pretty limited in our tech savviness. Some are better than others. Usually it's sort of like turn your phone off, on again, uninstall the app, reinstall the app. It's the same app, same code, so you don't need to do any of that. But outside of that, you can reach out to our tech support team. It's just tech support at GinaLivy.com. So if ever you're having an issue with our app, you can reach out to them. They'd be happy to help you. If you're not using our app, oh my goodness, you really should use our app.

It is so super cool. Not only can you track all the things you want to track, but it actually guides you through the program. It has all of the information in it. It rolls it out day to day and you can easily keep track of what you've seen and anything new. It's you can set intentions and a day reflections. It gives you a running total of your day.

It's really cool, really easy to use. You can also reach out to tech support for that. You can be like, hey, I wanna use the app. Not tech savvy, how do I do this? We also have a lot of great videos on our website that are like how-tos and stuff. Also, it houses all the lives now. So you can watch all of the live segments in the app,

as well as our guest expert segments as well. Volume is low. Is my volume low? Okay, let me turn that up, is that better? I don't know what's going on. My stress hormone is off, yeah. But, so what do you do about that? And just like in that post today,

let's talk weight loss is follow the program right now. Follow the program right now, be as consistent as possible without food plan, give that body what it needs, and then week to week to week, we're going to be building on that. Some of the supplements we're going to talk about, L-theanine is another one. It's a kind of green tea extract.

L-theanine, omega three, those can really help us stress levels. When you're really stressed, you're revving really high. Sometimes you're craving salty foods because your body is looking for more high fat. Adding in an omega-3, especially when your stress can help with stress levels. We're also going to talk to sleep experts. So Dr. Beverly David is not just a clinical psychologist. Her background is sleep research. And so you're going to talk to us about what happens to your brain when you are not getting sleep. And then Dr. Alinka is going to talk about what's happening to your body, especially with your hormones, when you're not getting sleep.

And then Alana McGinn is going to join us. She's going to talk about how to get a better night's sleep and manage your stress. So we have a whole sleep week coming up, which is really cool, because people really underestimate how much sleep and stress really factor in to your journey. Good morning, you bunch of losers. Right back at you, Dave.

So if you've ever heard the term, livi-loser, it is a term of endearment. We love that around here. So many years ago when we were asking people what were we going to call this process, because we asked the community and someone came up with the Libby method, which I was actually opposed to. I'm like, what now? And then someone else said, yeah, then we can call ourselves Libby losers. And then that just really took off.

I love the term because I always felt like personally a bit of a loser. When I was younger, I just, I don't know, I just thought the world was weird and didn't understand a lot of things. And I have like not this weird friend thing, but I always felt like I didn't belong. I don't know what is going on with my mic and it keeps doing that. And I've always felt like a bit of a loser. And I thought it was kind of like, because we want to lose, we're trying to lose weight. There it goes again. I don't know what is going on. We're trying to lose weight and we actually want to be losers around here. So that term just kind of stuck and people started calling

themselves Libby losers. So if you're wondering where that comes from, some people are like, I'm not a loser. I don't want to be called a loser. That's okay. You don't have to join our loser club. But I don't know, I really enjoy being a loser, being a loser. I don't want to be called a loser. That's okay. You don't have to join our loser club. But I don't know. I really enjoy being a loser. Being a loser. So that's where that comes from if anyone is sort of wondering about that. I don't know what's going on with my microphone but... Stanley is coming home. We just don't know what city. Were you all up last night watching the game? I know, right? I like dancing Gina. I've seen her in the past 10 days.

I have a question. Organic soy granules as protein, corn biscuits like popcorn. Organic soy granules as protein. I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure what's going on with me. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Mess this is right now. Maybe that will stick. Soy protein. Um, well, you want to make sure whenever you're having any soy products in general, it's organic soy. So that's really important. I'm not really familiar with organic soy granules as protein. I don't know if I don't know what that is. What that is. And corn biscuits like popcorn, do you want to avoid anything like biscuits, crackers, anything like that? Probably not the best thing to have. Corn is fine. A lot of people think corn is like it's starchy and whatever you can totally have corn. Corn is classified as a vegetable around here. Soy granules. Soy granules.

Let me see. Oh yeah. It's like a grain, right? Like a soy grain. Yeah. I would imagine. I don't know if it's like, uh, high enough in protein, protein, soy protein. And something new every day.

Soy granules, 50 grams of protein in every 100 grams. Yeah, they're not only a substitute for meat, but also give you more protein than chicken or lamb. Well, there you go. Yeah, totally add that in. Yeah, totally add that in. The corn biscuits, like popcorn. I mean, we do have a recipe

for like making your own crackers, like out of like, hemp and chia and whatnot. So you could totally, I'm all messed today because I was up last night. Those of you who joined me for my 11, my 10 to 11 a.m. PM live last night. So just so you know, I don't normally stay up late late like that. So that's why I'm a bit of a mess today. I just had all my blood work done yesterday, including vitamin D. I love that great idea to be checking in with your doctor along the way, getting your blood work done if possible, just a real baseline of where you're at. What I love, one of the things I love most about the end of the program is people actually coming back

with tangible proof that they've made improvements in their health and wellness. Just losing weight alone, because when you lose fat, you are also decreasing inflammation in your body. That's one of the things that happens when you're carrying excess fat, is that it causes inflammation among other things. But not only with losing fat, with the Libby method,

you're actually giving your body the resources it needs to make change. So you could go from pre-diabetic into normal range, drop your A1C, decrease your thyroid medication, get off your blood pressure meds, your cholesterol meds, like really make massive improvement. People with digestive issues, as we really work to strengthen your microbiome.

People who deal with inflammation, especially hormonal issues. For those asking about menopause, we do have a menopause expert. She's actually an MD who's gonna be joining us, Jennifer Zalawitzki, to talk specifically about that as well. We're also gonna be talking a lot of stuff for men as well. So men are definitely not left out of the conversation either, but it's a great idea

to be checking in with your doctor, especially if you're a man doing the program. And if we have any, if we have any men, women doing it with their husbands, you will know that men tend to lose a lot weight a lot quicker than women. And that's the thing with men is you can lose weight so fast with the program that you wanna make sure that your body is keeping up, especially your heart. So we've had people who've lost a considerable amount of weight and it takes your heart time to adjust your new size body.

And a lot of people will continue to take their blood pressure medication as they're losing weight. And you get to a point where you no longer need that. So that's why you want to make sure you're checking in with your health care providers along the way. Good morning, was out last night with friends, had a couple drinks, came home, wanted to splurge on carbs, but consulted the AI resource as what to do and it suggested popcorn. So that's what I had and I don't feel like I blew it. Today's a new day. I'm enjoying the excursion. Excursion. I love it. And I enjoyed the night out too. Yesterday with Dr. Dena, we talked about framing the program in a way that just resonates with you.

Is it a course? Is it an adventure? Is it a journey? But yes, you can have popcorn. So popcorn, especially if you're having a hard time with the kind of like eating in the evening, you eventually want to really take that out altogether because it's not really about what you are eating. It is about the fact that you're stimulating your digestive system. But as much as we don't and that can mess with your sleep. But as much as we don't, and that can mess with your sleep. And as much as we don't want you to be eating after dinner, we also don't want you going to bed

necessarily hungry either. In some circumstances, if you didn't have an opportunity to eat dinner or whatever, popcorn is a great option because it is high in fiber and it is low in sugar. So, I mean, at the end of the day, anything that you eat at night is going to not cause you to gain weight. It's really just about your sleep. So yeah, we used to actually

outright say popcorn is an option, but then people would just eat the popcorn and then we'd have to like really point out, okay, like week three, week four, you should be taking that out at this point. The sooner you can minimize any eating in the evening, But that's a good choice. That's a good choice considering, especially not an easy thing to come home after having a few drinks. Visiting family and celebrated my grandson's fourth birthday last night and I ate the cake and loved it, no guilt. So we have one rule around here and that is,

is we're about guidelines. We're not about rules. We're about eat the damn cake. So on your birthday, at a birthday party, eat the cake. Life is too short to not eat the cake. Now, if you don't want to eat the cake, don't eat the cake. But we definitely don't want to be feeling guilty. It's not the cake on the birthday.

It's not the chocolate at Easter. It's not the Halloween candy at Halloween. It's not the stuffing at Thanksgiving or any other food you enjoy on the holidays that you celebrate. It's the day in, day out stuff. And chances are, it's not actually even the food anymore. It's probably your high stress, your lack of sleep, and your hormones are just out of whack. And the thing is, we're not trying to balance hormones. We're trying to help regulate hormones, support hormone function. It's just so your hormones, we're trying to help regulate hormones, support hormone function. It's just that your hormones, like your body gets used to, we get used to larger portions and your body gets used to

having to use more insulin. You get used to larger portions so that messes with your hunger hormones, like you get this leptin sensitivity and you get used to being stressed all the time. And it's not about stress. Stress isn't a bad thing. It's how you're recovering from stress. So your body uses stress like primitively. You are being chased by a bear. You're out hunting for your food. You're being chased by a bear or a lion or whatever. You get stressed and then you calm down from stress. Or you're in a terrifying situation and you run away from it, you stress, you run away from it and then your body comes down from stress.

So then after being chased by a bear, you would then go home, be surrounded by your friends and then you would calm down from that stress. But nowadays you have something, stress happens and then you get in your car and you're stressed on honks at you and whatever and you get home and you're you got stress going on with work is like there's it's just stress all the time. So there's no real downtime on that stress. It's not really the stress that's the problem. It's recovering from the stress. So we're talking about how to help your body manage stress, not that stress is ever going to go away. So, you know, it's about, it's about,

I don't know how I got on the topic of stress or that I went off today. Why does it start a few minutes late for me when I go on the app? What's the fastest way to get to the lab? So we actually have a whole welcome guide. And I think people just, especially if you've gotten into the program,

you're probably just going to the prep week guide, where's the food plan guide, whatever. We have a whole welcome guide that's got a lot of really great tips in it. In it, it tells you the fastest way to find the live is by going to the photo section and you'll see it live playing there. If you wait until Facebook notifies you, it'll take forever. It's actually a manual process. As much as technology is amazing and the super cool things that AI does. What it doesn't do is connect the Facebook live to the actual app.

So when you go in, so my team has to get the live and then add it to the app. They are pretty quick. It happens within minutes, but it takes a little bit longer. So if you just go to the photo section, you'll find it playing there. If you try to scroll the feed, I mean, I guess it'll pop up at the front. So it's just technology. And then there's a bit of a time delay as well. There's a bit of a time delay as to,

sometimes it can take like seconds Facebook gets done. If you saw me, I was literally, I don't know if you watched the beginning of this, I was like watching it, because I was like, what is taking so long today? So Facebook can do a bit of a time delay I can click on live and then sometimes I'm on immediately and then today for whatever reason it took a while for it to Come into effect. How do you update the app? Just go to the app store

So if you go to the app store or I'm app store because I'm iPhone or I think it's Google Play Store if you're an Android and you just click on the little app to take you to the app store and then you can search the Libby method and then I don't even know if there is an update. I might even have an update that I haven't used. Go to the Libby method and then you'll see the app icon which we are changing. I don't know if you notice we've been updating all of our logo and branding. And then you can click on it. And then if there's an update, it'll let you know that there's an update there. Some people's phones automatically update depending on the settings. And there is a feature like, and if that's the case, then when there's an update,

it will actually let you know in the app. So it'll tell you when there are updates there. Acast powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. Ever heard a story so wild, you just had to know if it was true. I'm Alexis Steele from Degrassi and on Steele My Story, we put celebrity guests to the test. Join me and comedian Ian Fisher as we play a hilarious game of true or stolen story. Our guests share two stories, one from their own life and one they shall we say borrowed.

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and lots of other things can impact PCOS. Yes, yes actually. And in fact, we have a post on PCOS and the program as well. Right now, the main thing that you want to do is just follow the food plan and the tweaks each week are designed to help you get even more in tune to your body. And we are going to talk about supplements and whatnot. We obviously have had a lot of people you can imagine with PCOS and fertility issues. And so we had a lot of people sign up or it's been suggested by their doctor that they join us.

Because it's just a great program, not only for helping you lose weight, decrease inflammation and help with insulin sensitivity that they're now looking at more and more when it comes to PCOS, but really helping with inflammation as well. And so the program works really well and will absolutely help you with that for sure.

But we have a whole post. You can look into the app. I wonder if you can search the app for, so along with the ask feature at the bottom, if you go to the guide section here and you can pull up, that's the prop week guidelines. Why does it say prop week? Oh, I gotta advance my app.

But if you go in there and you search PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome for anyone who is wondering what that is, there's a post right there you can pull up. It says PCOS and the Libby method. So you can read about that there. So you don't have to wait until we post that information to review it. So that's a feature some people don't know. They go to the Ask feature at the bottom and use the AI, but there's also a search feature in the app as well. And then it pulls up all the information. And then for example, PCOS and the Libby method, there is Dr. Linka talking

hormones where she probably mentioned that in the program as well. Let's talk weight loss and hormones part one. So anything kind of that was ever mentioned, if you can imagine there's all of these posts where it was kind of mentioned. And so that pulls up anything relevant to that as well. Hi, Terry, Gina, I've been plateauing for the past three weeks, fluctuating between two pounds. I've been following to the T this morning.

I was above two pounds. Is there anything I can do to jerk my system? I feel so stuck. Okay, so if you're coming in hot off a past program, it could just be time that your body needs to adjust to the weight that you've lost. So that can happen. It is totally normal at this point for everyone else to not see any movement on the scale as frustrating as that can be. If you are following everything to a T and your weight is up this morning, that could be the very sign that you're looking for, that your weight is actually on the way down.

That's why we have the couple great posts for you today, why is my weight up and what real weight loss looks like on the scale. So we've actually, those scales are real from real people. And you'll notice if you look at those scales, there is an up before you start to see a down. And then after it goes down, it can go back up and then back down and then back up again.

It's all about the downward trend when it comes to tracking your weight. But what can you do? So let's, so Terry, I believe you've been, you've been with us for a while. So what's going on? The biggest mistake that people make when they go into their next program

is they stay stuck on the things that they did last time rather than being in tune with where they're at right now today. So for example especially with portions your your body is boosting your metabolism naturally with the time of year pulling you out of that winter hibernation mode so it's using more energy. The days are longer you're using more energy. You could be doing everything to a tee, but you are stressed at work and you're not sleeping. You could have something going on with family or whatnot. I got a lot of stress in your life. So those are sort of like what is going on in my life right now beyond the food. And I know that's a hard to do when you've probably done any other every other diet where you're just counting, weighing and measuring and try to eat even less exercise even more, and that's your way of trying to push the body.

That's forcing the body. That's not working with the body. But the body is like, what does my body need here? What the fuck, body? Like, what's your problem right now? Now, is your body changing? Because that also, as frustrating as it is, because you wanna see the scale move,

are you noticing you're feeling a lot leaner, your clothes are fitting better, you just, you know, like, are you noticing you're feeling a lot leaner, your clothes are fitting better, you just you know, like are you noticing non scale victories? Like is there is there change happening? Because as much as you want to see the scale move, the change is happening, then that is something. Because your body will focus on repair and rebuild, make change, and then it will get to again, your body doesn't want this fat any more than you do

So what's its deal? Why isn't it releasing it? So usually people look to the food and drink even more water, right? Like let me like eat even less Exercise even more drink even more water and that's not really your body's like, okay great, but I'm like fucking stressed over here You haven't slept for days. You're drinking alcohol again Yeah, your food is onto a tee but those glasses of wine at the end of the night really are not helping. And I don't know what it is, but this is for you to be like, okay, what does my body need right now?

Like, are you really digging into those portions? Again, not the food, but that just maximizing. So we're gonna start talking next week. Ah, great, great segue to the maximizing conversation. Next week, week two, we're gonna start talking about maximizing. What is that? Maximizing is everything but the food in the water.

So we're gonna talk about the importance of managing your stress. And everyone's like, I'm doing everything I can. And I'll say to them, have you taken any deep breaths today like deep breathing exercise whether it's box breathing seven in eight out whatever it is whatever kind of breathing you're doing just have you stopped today to be like That alone instantly instantly that alone instantly calms your vagus nerve. It's one of the easiest and effective things you can do for your stress.

And so people will be like, I'm doing all the things and I'll say, have you done any deep breathing exercises? And they're like, well, no, I'm like, well, then you're not doing all the things. There's always more you can do. That's just a simple one, for example. But we talk about stress, we talk about sleep, we talk about moving your body. Or you're backed up.

What's going on with your bowel movements, right? Being backed up can have your weight up. So it's sort of like what, and it's a list of 20 questions that you can ask yourself. Are you setting intentions each day? End of day reflections? Are you like, there's a lot that you can do. There's like 20 questions and then there's like an extended post that has like 150 sub questions in there. And so maximizing is all the other things besides the food and the water and then

supplements that we're gonna talk about. There also could be, and you know, with this menopause conversation that you were moving and grooving just fine and now menopause, perimenopause is starting to hit and the reality is there's nothing you can do about your estrogen levels dropping. Like you can eat your best and exercise your face off

and all of that, but your hormones are your hormones. No one is escaping menopause. A lot of times when people think that they are healthy and fit and whatever, that menopause isn't gonna get them. It's gonna get you. Now, does that, the decline in estrogen can also affect as aging, your decline in muscle mass. And so this is sort of where your when you're eating foods and your body's breaking

them down in glycogen, if you don't have that muscle mass your body stores them in your liver, in your muscle primarily, and in your fat. If you don't have the muscle mass, it'll store more in your fat. And then that is where you'll start to see that impact in your midsection. So you could have lost weight some previous programs and felt fantastic, but now feel like it's becoming a bit of a fight. Could be hormones, could be other health issues

that you got going on in your life. So if it feels like it's a fight, then you are fighting your body rather than working with it. So it could be a variety of things. If you feel like something is more than that is off, check in with your health care provider, but kind of do a reassessment on where you are at and what you need right now today. Why do you think your body isn't releasing this fat? Right? So that's where I would start, because people always say follow to a tee. Well, follow to the tea is just the food and the water.

What else is going on? Because it's about giving the body what it needs. So it no longer feels the need to store fat right now. But then it becomes also helping the body specifically focus on fat loss of all the things your body has to do. Keep you alive, keep you running, keep your manager stress, try to function on little sleep,

help you survive, fight viruses. There's a lot of colds and flus and viruses right now going on and releasing fat is not your body's, it's priority right now. So that's where you always wanna assess. Okay, so, cause breaking a plateau is no magical thing. And then keeping up with supplements, right? If you're low in vitamin D, if you're low in magnesium,

if you're not getting enough good fat in your diet, because you can be eating a healthy diet, but not necessarily getting the magnesium or the omega-3s that you need either. So I know that might seem like a lot, that's not meant to overwhelm you. That's meant for you to be like, oh, OK, so what is it? What is going on with you?

But chances are, if you're doing all the things, specifically, Terry, with you and your weight is up, that could be the sign that you're looking for. Usually it's when you're on the precipice of change, that stuck feeling. And you're like, oh, when I work with personal clients and literally they would be texting me all day every day everything that they're doing eating sleeping drinking pooping you name it that I knew I had actual proof that they were doing everything that they possibly could because they were working hand-in-hand

with me they would be like they would call me and be like can we talk I'm like sure and then they would just be like oh and I'd okay, well, chances are it's probably just your body. And then the very next day their weight would drop. And then it'd be like, ah, see, I did all I had to do was talk to you. I'm like, no, chances are you were just, you were right. And also remember with detox, we can feel extra moody, right? We can feel extra like, ah.

And so that in combination is like, you're right on the point where it's about to drop so that can happen too. Sometimes my suggestions to clients would be go for a walk try to take your mind off it it's like a watched pot where we just get like oh it's about this guy. I need to poop so we have a whole poop poop poop protocol I don't know when we're posting it probably in the next couple days we're gonna talk about poop and we're gonna have a we have a poop protocol for you. Take something if you need.

Make sure you're drinking water, leafy greens. Obviously, you're eating lots of fiber-rich foods. Sicillium is great. Metamucil is great. If you need something, that's going to help you go quicker than that. Sometimes in the beginning when you're making changes in your diet, it's that initial change because people think, oh, I eat all these fruits and vegetables, I'm going to shit for days, and you actually constipated.

Sometimes you're constipated, and let's say it's not a bad thing, is it your body making change? And what can happen is if you are someone who goes like every couple days, you'll have a bout of constipation, and then when your bowel movements get back online, next thing you know you're going every day. And then you have like a bout of constipation. And then when your bowel movements get back online, next thing you know, you're going every day. And then you have like a bout of constipation and the next thing you know, you're going twice a day. And so sometimes people perceive bouts of constipation as doing something wrong or not doing whatever when really it's just

change in your digestive system. But definitely don't suffer, make sure you take anything that you need to take loose bowel movements also normal, especially when your body is releasing fat. So we're going to talk more about bowel movements too. So I wonder if we can, if we go into the app and you do bowel movements, there's a post that comes up. So if you just search bowel movements in the app, there's a post that comes up and then you can review that.

We have it coming out in the next couple of days for sure. Let me just log into the bright thing. We have a post for everything in this program. But definitely don't, you don't, you definitely don't want to be suffering for sure. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do, do, do, do, do, do. Like you guys talking about the scale. It's my second program. I know the scale must go up before it goes down.

It's very hard to take. It is. It is very hard to, to, if you can understand using the school, the tool, this tool is a scale. That's where I'm at today. People. Um, if you can understand using this scale as a tool, it's interesting, this scale,

because you're the only person who knows the number. And we have been taught the scale goes down, you're doing everything right, the scale isn't going down, you must not be doing enough, right? All those detrimental weigh-ins that we've done over the years. And so in other diets, you probably weighed in when you felt like you had lost weight,

whereas now you're weighing every day. So you're picking up on the little fluctuations, which you're learning a lot about how you're feeling, what weight loss looks like, feels like, that type of thing. There's a lot of value to using the scale every day. Remember, you can always just not use the scale as well. If you feel like it, some people really find it affects their mental health. Don't use the scale every day. Remember, you can always just not use the scale as well. If you feel like it, some people really find it affects their mental health. Don't use the scale at all.

Go by how your clothes feel, how you're feeling. That can be way more motivating. The scale is a really great tool, especially to understand the trends, the ups and the downs, and then how you feel along with it for sure. But here's the thing. We want you, a lot of people have been affected by their history of diets.

Diets have been detrimental to people's physical health, but also their mental health as well. And a lot of people have tied their self-worth into the size of their body. It's been tough, man. And we just got it all wrong. And we just got it all wrong. The diet industry has got it all wrong. And so you probably have a lot of issues and associations and beliefs and thoughts and feels tied into your weight, tied into your weight loss journey, and therefore also tied into the scale. You're looking for proof when you get on that scale every day that you are worthy

or that you are good enough or you are or you're waiting on that number on the scale to be a certain number before you love yourself or you live your life in the way that you want, that's not it. This program is about learning to love yourself right now today. You're allowed to make, want to make change in your life, but if you're using the scale to measure anything else, right, that's problematic. But it's also those thoughts and feels you have that gives you great insight into the things that you need to work through. Why, why the scale is like, right, all your issues right in your face,

right? It's how you feel about yourself in your face. It's a reflection of your choices in your face. It's pretty big, pretty big to deal with. I think if I had a massive pimple and someone walked around and put a big mirror in my face all day, and all I I'm gonna think about is that massive pimple and how awful I look and embarrassed I am. I have this giant pimple on my face. Whether if I didn't have a mirror in my face I would just be walking around not being aware of the fucking pimple on my face. So the scale makes us really hyper aware of not only just our weight but how we feel about our weight. And so I love facing my shit. Like I like owning my shit.

I like, like I believe the universe will pop all the shit you need on your lap and then it's your job to work through it and sort through it. And then as soon as you clear that, which helps you learn and grow and evolve, more shit lands in your lap. And it's just kind of like layers getting deep. And I want you to get to a place where you are calm around food physically mentally where you're in tune with when to eat what to eat how much to eat where you get to a place where you love yourself

Every single day every step of the way regardless of what the scale is saying. I want you to feel worthy Regardless of what the scale saying. I want you to feel worthy, regardless of what the scale says. I want you to work through the shame. I want you to work through the guilt. I want you to be able to get to a place where you can enjoy all the yummy foods that you love and actually enjoy them and not feel guilty and the need to punish or berate yourself afterwards.

And so the scale can help bring up those thoughts and feels that you need to deal with. And this is why it's like, what is it about? And this we're going to talk to Dr. Beverly David tomorrow about naming the thoughts and feels people will say I'm struggling. What does what does what are you struggling with? Right? I'm frustrated.

Well, yeah, you're probably frustrated because you've done all those other diets, you lost weight and then you gained it back and you spend a lot of time and energy and money and you're still trying. That's frustrating. Right? So, what is the feel? Where's that coming from? And a lot of times just naming it helps you kind of work through it.

So, the scale is very hard to take. Absolutely. You are going to lose weight. That's why there's no reason why you, of all the science that is out there in the world about diets, there is zero science that says you can't lose weight. There's just no reason why you can't lose weight. There's lots of things that can make it more difficult for some people than others, but there's no reason why you can't lose the weight. And so it's a lot, this is why when we say, one

of the reasons why we say weight loss is so much more than what you're eating when, it's that, it's a lot of feels that a lot of people are unpacking on their weight journey. And you want to be successful, you are going to be successful. But the biggest advice I can give you is that your thoughts and your feels are a part of the journey. They're part of it. And that will help give you great insight into the things that you need to work through specifically.

I'm gonna go, I'm sorry about my mic issues. I'm gonna talk to my team about what the heck is going on. There's always something, my goodness. If you press and hold the two buttons on the other side of the volume you set it It will lock Facebook keeps changing it on me. So it's Facebook who's doing this on me press and hold And it's looking Well, there you go, I fixed it

So Tonight if you join me at 7 p.m., apparently I will no longer have volume issues. There we go. I have a great team. Thank you, team. Both buttons. I got it. Yep.

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Progress over perfection. Y'all, some days are better than others. Thank you for joining me today. Thank you for your patience. Thanks everyone. I hope you have a great rest of your day. I will be back tonight at 7 p.m. if you want to join me then and then also back tomorrow with Dr. Beverly David. We're not done this week yet. Read over those posts. Why is my weight up? What real weight loss looks like? And the post of Let's Talk Weight Loss. Those are game changer posts. That's going to really put your mind at ease, especially with what's happening on the scale. Yellowstone. Stephen King was rejected by 30 publishers.

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